Re: FLASH: sound in preloader

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 01:54 PM 3/15/00 , you wrote:


>hi flashers, firstly. thanks to marc hoffman of Poison

>Dart Frog Media...i will try your suggestion. am i

>correct in assuming that you need to explicitly tell

>sounds not to play in a preloader and this is the

>reason why they are placed in an mc with the sound set

>to off?

>does this mean that when i preload the sound mc's the

>sound files will be preloaded but not play, and

>throughout the rest of the movie i can just use the

>sounds as usual- eg placed in frame whaterver?


I didn't realize you were trying to preload the sound. I haven't tested 

using Stop (specific sound) as a way to preload that sound. You can test it 

yourself by generating the size report (it's a function of export movie) 

and see if the early frames seem to be loading the sound (if the sound is 

large, it will be easy to identify). Please report your findings. If I have 

time to test it myself, I'll also report to the list.


-Marc


Marc Hoffman


Poison Dart Frog Media: Specializing in Flash Animation and Digital Audio 

Production

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